"Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read."

-- Rebecca West

#People Quotes #Literature Quotes #Salt Quotes

“I have a zillion bottles of hot sauce. I love Trader Joe's jalapeno. The whole right side of my fridge is filled with hot sauce.”
“If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.”
“I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win].”

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“In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.”
“Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.”
“At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living. As a matter of fact, it is the man who has read and thought on many subjects who is, with the necessary training, the most capable whether in handling tools, drawing plans, or keeping books.”

Source : Charlotte Mason (2013). “Towards a Psychology of Education”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
“The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization.”

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